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DEFINITION: n. The type of headache you get from buying too many things with your credit card. Note: Symptoms do not usually appear until the following month.v. To buy yourself a huge credit card headache.
Verboticisms
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Postshoppangsyndrome
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: post/shop/pang/syn/drome
Sentence: When the credit card bill arrived, she immediately fell into postshoppangsyndrome where the only cure was a day of receipt seaching and merchandise returning.
Etymology: posttraumaticsyndrome + shop + pang (ache or throb)
Credache
Created by: Clayton
Pronunciation: KRED-eyk
Sentence: After three hours on hold with her bank, Jackie's credache was debtamorphosing into an arrearache.
Etymology: credit + headache
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COMMENTS:
sounds debititating. - petaj, 2007-07-04: 03:46:00
sounds like a contageous strain of sellyoulitis. - galwaywegian, 2007-07-04: 06:24:00
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Shoppang
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: shop/pang
Sentence: A shoppang set in with the arrival of my MasterCard bill in the mail.
Etymology: shoppang - shop + pang (a sudden feeling of mental, or emotional distress)
Signusheadache
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sign/us/hed/ake
Sentence: I don't know which was worse, my signusheadache or the carpal tunnel in my writing wrist after mall hopping on Saturday.
Etymology: sign + sinus headache
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COMMENTS:
That type of charging always leads to delay-aw-ache at night. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-04: 06:45:00
nightmares such as "A mall and the night visitors" - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 11:30:00
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Bankruptalgia
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: bankrupt-al-gee-a
Sentence: In a fit of pique, Morgan went on a shopping expedition with the corporate credit card purchasing a fleet of vehicles, upgrading PCs for all the staff and treating them all to a long liquid lunch. In addition to their hangovers, they also suffered bankruptalgia the next month when the company went broke and they all lost their jobs.
Etymology: bankrupt + algia (pain) - inspired also by the rupture of a blood vessel in an aneurism
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COMMENTS:
Anything with "-algia" in it gets my vote. But don't hold me to that. - Clayton, 2007-07-04: 12:04:00
Hey Clayton - there are 3 definitions today with algia in them - petaj's sounds the most severe though - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-04: 15:46:00
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Newralgia
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: newer/algia
Sentence: He developed a serious case of newralgia when he replaced all his appliances with new ones.
Etymology: neuralgia + new
Migrastic
Created by: Paloma
Pronunciation: my-GRAS-tic
Sentence: My online shopping habit has created a migrastic-inducing monthy ritual of opening my credit-card bills.
Etymology: migraine + plastic
Comments:
Sounds debititating!
Oops, that was meant to be a comment on credache!
Today's definition was illustrated by Franke James. Thank you Franke. ~ James